Praise for With Regrets:
“[With Regrets] reveals this author’s genuine flair for originality, urban fantasy, and a distinctive, narrative driven, apocalyptic storytelling style.”
—Midwest Book Review
“An intense novel that ramps up the tension as you read along . . . You will not want to put this one down.”
—Red Carpet Crash
“Lee Kelly gives us a story that is both terrifying and poignant. Needless to say, I loved With Regrets—I think you will, too.”
—Christina Dalcher, Sunday Times bestselling author of Femlandia
“Compulsively readable . . . An exciting premise combined with a cast of very relatable characters add up to a book that is impossible to put down.”
—Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties and Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
“With Regrets is a tense and claustrophobic look at what happens when an already uncomfortable dinner party is interrupted by a world-changing catastrophe. Told through four unique women trapped in a wine cellar, the book is a thrilling mix of dystopia, locked-in thriller, and family drama as the complex characters are forced to deal with fear, unraveling secrets, and the ultimate terror: being separated from loved ones when disaster strikes.”
—Darby Kane, bestselling author of The Last Invitation
“By turns harrowing and hilarious, With Regrets is a nail-biting page-turner that brings the apocalypse thrillingly close to home.”
—Jennifer Thorne, author of Lute and Diavola
“Pulse-pounding and wildly original, With Regrets exposes the dark underbelly of suburbia and the true cost of keeping up appearances. Expertly crafted tension rachets up as a mysterious environmental threat looms large, but even more danger may lurk in the cellar in which these dinner companions find themselves trapped for the night. Lee Kelly has created a thrilling, nuanced, highly entertaining story that readers will find impossible to put down.”
—Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here
Praise for Lee Kelly:
“Well-crafted and delightfully taut, A Criminal Magic is a wonderful piece of spellwork.”
—V.E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“This urban fantasy, always electric, reads like jazz itself.”
—Publishers Weekly, on A Criminal Magic
“There are plenty of heart-pounding moments in Kelly’s debut, and an abundance of vividly imagined details bring post-apocalyptic New York City to searing life.”
—Publishers Weekly: A Most Anticipated Novel of Spring 2015, on City of Savages
“Kelly’s prose is gorgeous and brilliant.”
—VOYA, starred review, on City of Savages
“This is a solid, suspenseful, Prohibition-era crime story…a clever and very imaginative variant on a tried-and-true theme.”
—Booklist, on A Criminal Magic
“Better hope you clear off your calendar when you start Lee Kelly’s City of Savages, because you’re going to be white-knuckle gripped from page one.”
—Bustle
“A Criminal Magic is a solid, well-written tale . . . but it’s the ending that is going to have everyone talking. The final plot twist is a punch in the gut.”
—Tor.com
“Reminiscent of The Night Circus with a splash of The Great Gatsby.”
—Romantic Times, on A Criminal Magic
“A Criminal Magic is a smart, absorbing read.”
—Kate Elliott, author of The Spiritwalker trilogy
“Intriguing, exciting and unusual.”
—S.M. Stirling, author of the Change series, on City of Savages
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